A Few Titbits From Frank Warren's The Sun Weekly Article

A few titbits, none of the Page 3 variety, from Frank's weekly The Sun article. Looking forward to the Johhny Tapia documentary, no shortage of material to work with. Frank is now calling out Adonis for Cleverly, Frank seems to be in matchmaking overdrive, let's see how many fights get made.

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"The grapevine is ripe with rumours that Amir Khan could challenge WBA welter king Devon Alexander from St Louis over in Dubai in early December.

The sport can never have too many outlets. However, I remain sceptical regarding interest from the Middle East. There was no bigger Muslim draw than a prime Naseem Hamed yet, despite plenty of lip service, the Arabs were always very slow pull their dough up. Only believe it'll happen when the money is deposited in the bank.


Having baited Carl Froch in vain during his nine months as mandatory IBF super-middle challenger, Adonis Stevenson stepped up to light-heavyweight last weekend and needed just 76 seconds to clatter reigning WBC king 'Bad Chad' Dawson over in Montreal.

The 35 year old Haitian is a seriously dangerous puncher. Nevertheless, Nathan Cleverly is willing to accommodate him in a unification spat on either side of the Atlantic, any time Stevenson fancies it.


Despite sending a young, transitional squad, Britain's elite amateurs returned with an impressive three medal haul from the recent European senior championships in Minsk, Belarus.

Congratulations to Welsh flyweight Andrew Selby who retained his title plus Englishmen Jack Bateson and John Joe Joyce who collected bronze medals at light-fly and super-heavyweight respectively.

However, the amateur code could be in jeopardy of imploding from within. Squabbling between the British Amateur Boxing Association, which oversees the elite program, and the home nation associations, which cater for the sport at grassroots, saw BABA Executive Chairman Derek Mapp ousted from office at an EGM last week.

The rift has angered benefactors UK Sport who are threatening to withhold funds until the feuding factions get their house in order.  Quite scandalous that administrative egos could compromise our flourishing young boxers.


The up-coming film "Tapia" on the tragic life of Johnny Tapia will be given the Hollywood treatment when it premieres at the Los Angeles Film Festival today.

Rap star and boxing promoter 50 Cent and Lou DiBella have joined forces to produce the documentary on the five-time and three-weight world champion who was found dead at his home last year."

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It would be a terrible shame if our amateur boxing setup if compromised after things have been going so well since the Olympics. The set up here is second to none and will produce great boxers if it is maintained.

Pull their dough up...Clatter...Unification spat...

Feuding factions...Administrative egos...

If Frank Warren wrote that I will eat my own arse.

Funny how Clev will meet any fighter any time but none of these materialise.

He's becoming more and more irrelevant.